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A device for letting off releasing or giving forth as the warp from the cylinder of a loom...
Warping
Warping. A mode of fertilizing land by the 'wrap' or deposit of flooded or tidal rivers artificially let in over the land and let off from it. Warping is an improvement within the Agricultural Holdings Act for which compensation is payable if executed with the consent of the landlord, and an improvement upon which a tenant for life may expend capital money under the Settled Land Act, 1925. See 3rd Sch., Part I. (iii.), and AGRICULTURAL HOLD-INGS and SETTLED LAND....
Highways
Highways, all portions of land, and passage which every subject of the kingdom has a right to use. See Pratt on Highways; also defined by the Highway Act, 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 50), s. 5, 'All roads, bridges (not being county bridges), carriage ways, cartways, horseways, bridleways, footways, cause-ways churchways and pavements. They exist either by prescription, by authority of Acts of Parliament, or by dedication to the use of the public; and see the Rights of Way Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 45). The right of the public, when once acquired, is permanent and inalienable except by the authority of Parliament-'once a highway, always a highway.' It cannot be lost by abandonment or non-user, and the public retain the right, though they may never have occasion to use it. But the right is only a right of passing and repassing, pausing only for such time as is reasonable and usual when persons are using a highway as such. A man has no right to stand on the highway in order to shoot pheas...
Premises let for residential purposes
Premises let for residential purposes, the premises let for residential purposes should be construed liberally and not technically or narrowly; meaning thereby, where the premises are solely let for residential purposes they are undoubtedly covered by s. 14(1) (e) but even when the premises are let out for composite or mixed purposes if the predominant or main purpose of letting is for residential purposes, the same would be included within the expression 'the premises let for residential purposes.' An incidental, a secondary or unauthorized user of the premises for purposes other than residence would not take the premises out of the meaning of the expression 'the premises let for residential purposes', Precision Steel and Engineering Works v. Prem Deva etc., AIR 2003 SC 650 (654): (2003) 2 SCC 236. [Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958, s. 14(1)(e) and Explanation 1]...
Offlet
A pipe to let off water...
Racktail
An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock...
Within 6 months from the date on which it is so let
Within 6 months from the date on which it is so let, the expression within 6 months from the date on which it is so let' means let to that tenant who disputes or desires to dispute the standard rent and move the Court for determination of standard rent. The words 'so let' mean so let to that tenant after the commencement of the Rent Act, O.P. Kathpalia v. Lakimir Singh, AIR 1984 SC 1744 (1750): (1984) 4 SCC 66....
Passing off
Passing off, in action for passing off pray of actual deception is not necessary two marks bear an ovrall similarity as would be likely to mislead a person usually dealing with one to accept the other if offered to him, it is enough, National Match Works v. S.T. Karuppanna Nadar, AIR 1979 Mad 157.An infringement action is available where there is violation of specific property right acquired under and recognised by the statute. In a passing-off action, however, the plaintiff's right is independent of such a statutory right to a trade mark and is against the conduct of the defendant which leads to or is intended or calculated to lead to deception. Passing-off is said to be a species of unfair trade competition or of actionable unfair trading by which one person, through deception, attempts to obtain an economic benefit of the reputation which another has established for himself in a particular trade or business. The action is regarded as an action for deceit. The tort of passing-off inv...
let
let let let·ting vt 1 : to offer or grant for rent, lease, or hire : lease [may not be alienated, , or encumbered] [corporeal things may be out] 2 : to assign esp. after bids [were attempting to a contract without going through the bidding process "Union Springs Tel. Co. v. Rowell, 623 So. 2d 732 (1993)"] vi 1 : to become rented, leased, or hired 2 : to become awarded to a contractor ...
Farm let
Farm let, to let to be farmed: the full phrase is 'demise, sett, and to farm let.'...
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